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Currently being used in mining and athlete tracking, Wireless Ad hoc System for Positioning (WASP) has the potential to revolutionise safety in dangerous work environments such as oil and gas, drilling and processing. Even with extensive safety precautions in high risk work environments risk cannot be completely eliminated, it can however be managed.

WASP provides high risk work environments with the ability to:

Track movement of people or vehicles

Predict collisions

Pinpoint dangers like gas leaks

Direct people in emergencies

Location tracking not only improves safety for workers and creates a better work environment, it also enables businesses to verify what happened if there is an incident, reducing their exposure to liability. Greater visibility improves decision making leading to better productivity.

Rohan McDougall. The programme has really provided a structured format for thinking about the idea from a business perspective, how can you monetise technology?

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Who are the customers? These are the things that you go through in a very measured and structured way to really build a cohesive business opportunity.

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Michael Withford: I was originally cynical about the ON Programme because we were already selling products and so we thought we knew what it took to actually take our company forward.

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I was arrogant. I did not know everything there was to know and this programme’s been great for me.

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It’s supplied me with the tools I need to take our business venture forward.

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Nancy Schellhorn: I think the highlight for me is the way in which we engage with customers now.

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Before ON we would talk to them about how we thought our science could help solve their problems. Now we spend most of our time learning about their pain points.

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Leonore Ryan: That discipline of going out and talking to your potential customers and understanding their needs has completely changed who we’re targeting and how we actually approach them.

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Rohan McDougall: It also gave us the chance to talk to potential investors and get this to them at an affordable price but also at a price that we can make money.

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Lloyd Nicoll: The best part of ON was really having access to great mentors and really good coaches.

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Kate Cavanagh: It is super exciting to get other people’s perspective on your business

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and how you can make it grow.

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Andrew Lamble: My biggest highlight from the ON programme is seeing people learn from their mistakes, watching people pick themselves up and pivot to another place and drive to another agenda has been really exciting.

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Martin Duursma: As a mentor we want to work with the next Google of the world right and hopefully one of these teams that we’re mentoring can make it big and we’d be part of that. So it’s pretty energising.

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